Republicans Inept, Lose Golden Opportunity On Healthcare

Posted on | December 22, 2009 | No Comments

It was the one of the most amazing and dastardly feats ever performed by a Senate in recent memory—the desperate 1am vote to get an unfavorable and even hated bill pushed toward passage—healthcare. And yet more amazing was the failure of the Republican Party to take full advantage of the debacle.

One of the greatest things about America has always been having at least two strong parties that stand in opposition. It is what has kept the system relatively honest as possible. Each party gets to call the other on the carpet, debate them fiercely, uncover flaws in approach or thinking or law-making, and in the end, we get some help for average citizens were the parties can agree.

Albeit the system is now overwrought with extreme corruption by the way of campaign financing and special influences—many of which not only do not belong in politics America (such as transnational corporations exerting undue foreign influence disguised as corporations)—the fact is the parties, until recently, have seemed to be shady reflections of each other. The American people keep looking for their ideals to be represented and instead, keep finding one party after the other imitating the other party once in power—corruption mirroring corruption, topping the last player with new moves and audacity rarely witnessed by the last group.

The last election was a referendum on the Republican Party and the abusive politics of George Bush’s second term administration, whereby the American people saw their ideals, values, and Rights set aside in the name of a nebulous war on terrorism and war on the Constitution. They wanted change and did not walk, but ran toward the Democratic Party to get it—women wanted Hillary Clinton for sexist reasons, extremist liberals and Blacks spurred by Oprah Winfrey wanted Obama—nobody wanted another Bush in the form of John McCain. And McCain himself, refused to take the gloves off and demand a return to his past values and ideals—to a strong sense of conservative values—to shed off unpopular notions such as supporting an amnesty for illegal aliens. In short, he was simply the wrong candidate against such two powerhouse Dems and a populace demanding ethics and positive change to government.

The Dem Party had mobilized like no other in history. And like it or not, John McCain was forever branded a Bush lackey, and distrusted by many for his turn-coat past on immigration and unholy alliance with Ted Kennedy—simply untrustworthy for too many casting a vote.

Such a past blunder by the Republican Party does, in fact, help us foretell political futures.

As healthcare came down on the side of severe corruption from both inside the Dem party, the ranks of the Senate, and the influences of special interests, Republicans failed to spring with an all-out publicity blitz that could have locked their political future for a 2010 landslide. In short, they are as mundane as ever on political strategy—making too many decisions based on favors and inside-looking-out-viewpoints instead of cold deliberation and balance perspective. They failed to mobilize aggressively, to embrace audacity and forthrightness and demand ethics and responsibility from their own government and peers—to show the American people the true face of politics and how they wanted to champion real change to end bad politics. The reality is, they let a defining moment pass the party as a whole.

They could have taken the high road, the loudspeaker road, and simply embraced the party’s original ideals and platform, its conservatism and set itself apart as the new moral authority—the party of ethics combating evil. Instead, they merely protected the status quo by making a soft show of it—they proved themselves no better than the opposition—they did America and Americans no good at all!

Repubs failed to take advantage of political timing, to rally their base, to raise funds, to use such a horror story made to order by the Dems to their advantage. Did they create a media campaign to expose the bill’s hidden realities? Did they press public service messages across the land to expose the strong arm tactics of the Obama Administration or the unethical deal making of the majority leader and others? Did they explore individual improprieties in the Dem process and system and get nasty—did they command the stage of public opinion making by taking the high ground and exposing the skeletons in the Dem closet?

The Repubs once again failed to take the gloves off and get back to their traditional roots and they wonder why their leadership has to make a plea to the Tea Partiers to come and join them, the so called conservative value party that mirrors the opposition in the halls of power in every way but ideology. It shows just how failed the Repub leadership was, is, and continues to be even when handed such a rare political gem.

Anyone who studies the healthcare bill knows it is the work of demons and anti-Americans disguised as progressives and extremist liberals. This may only slightly be argued and debated, but what cannot be argued is the fact the Republicans did not fully expose this reality to the American people! It’s as if Obama himself were running the Republican Party and its platforms, strategies, and action plans. And this does not serve anyone, not the American people, not the Republican Party, not our democracy, and certainly not our Constitution.

Our country survives its democracy because opposition parties bring to light the deficiencies in the prevailing party’s plans so that somewhere, hopefully in the middle, the average American can gain a little benefit after the turmoil has ended. Partisan bills are absolutely hated by the American people because it shows a lack of balance and care for them and their country.

We used to protect things like the Constitution from both sides of the aisle, keeping the other side honest in that respect, but today’s healthcare bill, and the Republican Party’s lack of contest and anger over it and its trashing of our Constitution, is beyond the pale. It is yet one more salvo on the American people fired not by the Dems, but by silent and incompetently organized and managed Republicans—a collective failure for conservatives and cause for the continued growth of the now growing Tea Party Movement that is dwarfing the Republican Party.

The Republican Party is quite simply, out of touch—too progressive—too liberal—too ineptly managed and strategized—too unethical and immoral—unable to meet the demands of the modern age and populace voter that liens heavily conservative in its majority, but always away from corruption, special interest pandering, hypocrisy, and incompetency—a people literally starved for positive conservative leaning change and leadership and searching everywhere to find it—now gravitating toward the newly formed Tea Party message and perhaps so to be new party. The Republican Party has lost its rudder, and as the ship founders, America herself pays the price—and so does America’s children.

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